Our staff correspondent from Khulna reports: Abdul Chowdhury alias Raju, 25, an armed cadre of PBCP, was hacked to death by his rivals in the party at Nandanpur under Rupsha upazila in the early hours of Saturday.

Rupsha police said Raju, 35, was dragged out of the RSB brickfield in the area by his rivals at around 3pm and killed.

Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of the Rupsha Police Station, said Raju was an armed cadre of PBCP Tapan group. The murder was a sequel to an intra-party rivalry between Tapan group and Janajuddha group.

The slain outlaw, a grocer, was wanted in Rupsha police murder case.

Police recovered the body from a road near the brickfield Saturday morning and sent it to the Khulna Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

According to our Kushtia correspondent, PBCP cadre Mushtak Ahmed was shot dead at village Sutial in Mirpur upazila on Friday night.

Son of late Mafiz Uddin of Isalmary in the upazila, Mushtak was abducted by a gang of five led by a leader of New Biplobi Communist Party (NBCP) at gunpoint from his home at about 10pm.

The gang took Mushtak to Sutail field and shot him point blank. Mushtak died on the spot.

Police recovered the body and sent it to the Kushtia General Hospital for autopsy.

A case was filed with Mirpur Police Station accusing four of the NBCP.